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GUEST POST There are few human emotions as primal and powerful as fear. Master horror writer H.P. Lovecraft put it best when he wrote, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the…

When we think of romance, we automatically think books for women by women, but when you look again you will notice that it is not entirely true. Men write romance. It’s 2019 and we are still getting wrapped up in gender constructs. The first name…

GUEST POST Building your professional brand through writing blogs is a highly shareable method to get your message to your audience. Whether you are an author selling books or a niche expert with a profitable online business, blogging can engage your community and keep them…

If you want to learn how to write a romance novel, our new course, This Kiss Online is perfect for you. Mia Botha, the Winner of the Mills and Boon Voice of Africa Competition, is the co-author of the course. She writes: I've been creating our new course, This…

Do you struggle to find ideas for plots? For some of us, the problem with writing a book is finding a great idea for a plot. Use these fun suggestions to help you find a story idea that makes you want to write a novel…

Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist, and screenwriter who was born 8 May 1958. Several of his books have been made into films, including The Commitments in 1991. He is perhaps the novelist most closely identified with the emergence of Ireland as a modern European nation. According…

Every month, we look at the posts that people read the most. These were the new Writers Write posts you enjoyed most in April 2019: 7 Deadly Rules For Creating A Villain Why Method Writing Makes You A Better Author Anne Lamott On Life And Writing…

Esther Freud is an English writer who was born 2 May 1963. Her first novel Hideous Kinky, was published in 1992 and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It was made into a film starring Kate Winslet. In 1993, after the publication of her…

It’s time to submit your fourth poem for 2019. The prompt is 'Gender' and I look forward to reading your poems. This month there are no specific guidelines and it’s quite a change after the strict and challenging guidelines of the sonnet. I was almost…

Are you trying to get a better response to your emails or business blog posts? Why not try these 12 ideas for subject lines? We have written extensively about subject lines and blog post titles on Writers Write. You need to know which words to…